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ThinkGeek – Geek Toys for Geeky Types
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ThinkGeek is one of my favourite webshops. ThinkGeek is a webshop dedicated to geeky and fun toys and apparel. Their target audience is the geekier people, the IT crowd – basicly anyone you’d consider a little bit “brainy”.

At ThinkGeek they’ve got apparel for children, gadgets, electronics and more. The products cover areas such as Star Wars, Zombies, Linux and Gaming. Many of the products are also very suitable for adults – especially if you’ve got a spouse working in the IT industry.
If you’re looking for Christmas gifts for a child they’ve got a whole section you can browse through.
Should you know someone who’s very into playing World of Warcraft or other types of role playing games a good gift idea would be these health energy potions pictured on the left. Loaded with caffeine which is a gamers fuel but they also contain elderberry and ginseng and are void of sugar.
Atypyk Super Hero Hat
A little Christmas gift idea to keep the kids warm: Atypyks new Super Hero hat! It’s made in black polar fleece and comes in size 6-10 years old.
Buy the Super Hero hat in Atypyks online store for 14.00 EURO or 19.60 USD.
Pee&Poo – Forbidden Toys

Here’s something different! Emma Megitt, a designer from Sweden, created the cute Pee&Poo characters as her graduation project. She tried to create something that could adress the subject of the bodily functions we all use when going to the toilet, in an amusing and aesthetic manner. She ended up with the Pee and Poo characters.
Pee&Poo not only works well as cuddly plush toys and toilet training buddies, they have also been well received by the adult designer plush fans.
Pee&Poo are sold as plush toys, key rings, stickers and clothing. All products can be bought at Pee&Poo, or through a reseller. Resellers can be found here, under “Återförsäljare” in the top menu.
The plush toys duo package, with Pee and Poo, cost USD 32, and the key rings cost USD 7.5 each.
Jumping Brain Toy

The Jumping Brain is a cross between a brain and a frog. Boys are going to love it! Especially because you’ll be able to divide the two half’s of the brain.
This brainy toy is designed by Lapolab/Emilio Garcia, and will be available in a few months. There will only be made 12o figures of each color, but they will all be signed and numbered. The Jumping Brains will cost about $45-65 USD each.
Via Vinyl Pulse
The Alien Abduction Lamp by Lasse Klein

Some of you may have seen the super cool Alien Abduction Lamp, and, just as I, got depressed upon realizing that it was not a real product yet, and there were no real plans to get it out on a shelf anywhere.
A few days ago though, I got a message which made my day. The creator of the lamp, Lasse Klein, wrote that they are working on getting the lamp into production, and it will most likely be in the stores sometime during 2008! I love this lamp, and I will actually go as far as predict a couple of awards to its genius developer!
I’ll keep you updated on this and in the meantime you can check out The Alien Abduction Lamp site for more information on it.
I can’t wait for this!
E-glue Wall Decor

E-glue makes cool wall decoration stickers in lots of different designs, sizes and color combinations.
Their giga-KITs are phenomenal. They are, at the time being, available in savanna-, farm-, under water- and skeleton pirate themes. These kits are full of their fun designs, and maybe the best thing about them is the possibility to choose the color combinations yourself! There are several main colors and secondary colors to choose from, so there’s a good chance of finding colors which match the rest of the room. I would think the kids would love to get to choose the colors themselves as well!
E-glues also has a product called artiKIDS which allows for the customer to send in a kids drawing, which then can be made into wall decals! artiKIDS is, like the rest of e-glues decals, available in many different sizes.
Drop by e-glue for more information or to purchase their products.
Handmade Robot Pouches
When kids only need to take small stuff like keys, wallets and phones with them, it’s great for them to have a small pouch to keep it all in. Anatomy Of A Skirts handmade Robot Pouches are small, practical and cool looking.
The Robot Pouches are made out of silver or gold vinyl, which makes them water resistant and easy to clean with a damp cloth. They open by unzipping their mouths, and I think they’d work just as well as small pencil cases.
The Robot Pouches, along with lots of other cool accessories, are available at Anatomy Of A Skirt.
Piggybank or Monsterbank?
Big G is a very unusual little piggybank with simple round shapes and several well placed and freshly colored spots. This piggybank is made out of china, the money is put into its mouth, and a plastic stopper underneath its belly allows for easy access to the money in the usual way.
I’m not really sure if it’s a cute little piglet or a bloodthirsty monster, but no matter what I think it looks cool.
Big G is designed by Camilla Prada and can be bought at Soma Gallery.
Paper Craft Links
Amongst all the free paper craft downloads around the Internet, there are lots of simple, fun and decorative paper figures made by artists and designers. These paper figures are easy to put together, and the detail is in the graphics. These figures can often be downloaded in several fun and versions, including blank templates, for people to apply their own graphic, paint or draw on. They are perfect for kids (and adults) of all ages.
I have made a small list of some of the very cool and simple paper craft figures that I’ve come across lately. If anyone’s got more of these that they’d like to share, please leave a comment!
- Speakerdog – simple, fun and available in lots of different versions made by different graffiti artists, illustrators and graphic designers.
- Readymech – cool, simple and charming figures.
- Gloo Man – choose sex, hair type, belt buckle and other details before downloading your personal Gloo Man!
- NANA – cool and detailed figure with removable helmet. (Click second preview from the left to see the figure. Click arrow to download PDF.)
- Flicker Monkey’s figures – simple and cute.
- Custom Paper Toys Owwwl – fun, detailed (cool skeleton on its back) with movable parts. Besides the owl there is four other free downloads.
- e440 – Cool squirrel figure. Five versions (at the time being), including a blank template, all are available for free by contacting the blog author.
- Cutnejo – charming rabbit.
